Alphamatician is hiring a Web Scraping Engineer for an individual-contributor role at the heart of our data operations. The work is technical, operational, and quietly important: keeping a mature alternative-data product running reliably for institutional investors.

What You Will Do
- Morning (7am ET). Review overnight pipeline logs. Identify failures, anomalies, or coverage gaps. Triage fixes and follow-ups.
- Engineering work. Fix PHP bugs. Update scrapers as target sites change their structure or defenses. Update cron logic. Ship incremental improvements to collection coverage and quality.
- Data quality. Run checks against current and historical baselines to confirm coverage and accuracy.
- Client questions. Respond to client inquiries about coverage, methodology, or anomalies as they come in.
- Strategy. Periodically discuss collection strategies, help scope and stand up new datasets, and contribute to new products and features.

This is operational work with a steady rhythm. The reward is in keeping an important data product running well,



and in being good at a specific kind of hard problem (scraping hard sites at scale) that few people are actually valuable at.

Hard Requirements
- Production PHP experience. CodeIgniter 4 is a strong plus. You must be able to point to public PHP work: a repo, contributions to a project, a blog post, or similar.
- Python proficiency with modern scraping libraries. Working fluency in Playwright, Scrapy, Selenium, Requests, httpx, BeautifulSoup, or comparable.
- Demonstrated experience scraping hard targets at scale. Sites with active anti-bot defenses, dynamic rendering, rate-limit walls, or aggressive blocking. You must include a link to public scraping work in your application, or describe a specific scraper you built in detail (target, defenses encountered, how you solved them).
- MySQL competence. Reading, writing, and optimizing non-trivial queries against tables with hundreds of millions of rows.
- Schedule. 7am US Eastern s

📌 Intern Fall/Winter/Spring/Summer (Ajmer)
🏢 Alphamatician
📍 Ajmer